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Bureau Plat
A writing table (French ''bureau plat'') has a series of drawers directly under the surface of the table, to contain writing implements, so that it may serve as a desk. Antique versions have the usual divisions for the inkwell, the blotter and the sand or powder tray in one of the drawers, and a surface covered with leather or some other material less hostile to the quill or the fountain pen than simple hard wood. In form, a writing table is a pedestal desk without the pedestals, having legs instead to hold it up. This is why such tables are sometimes called leg desks. The writing table is often called a "bureau plat" when it is done in a French style such as Louis XVI, Art Nouveau, etc. When a writing table is supported by two legs instead of four, it is usually called a trestle desk. The writing table is also sometimes called a library table, because it was often placed in a home library. This was the room in a house where a gentleman would keep literature and also do his b ...
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Rent Table
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Stipo A Bambocci
Stipo a bambocci (plural: ''Stipi a bambocci'') is a writing cabinet, which was made during the Renaissance in Upper Italy and which can be locked by a fall-front. The characteristic features of the stipo a bambocci are the carved small, chubby child-figures. In the history of furniture-design these cabinets appear unique in their decoration through their shape and design. On some surviving examples the bambocci-figures correspond with each other and are composed in a certain iconographical context, such as the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden on one cabinet in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. The wood used for construction is walnut as well as burr- walnut and partly even the costly imported Caucasian walnut. Workshop On the basis of new research it was possible to identify a workshop, which developed and produced the stipo a bambocci as a new type of writing-cabinets.Weltkunst ...
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List Of Desk Forms And Types
This is a list of different types and forms of desks. Desk forms and types *Armoire desk *Bargueño desk * Bible box * Bonheur du jour *Bureau à gradin * Bureau brisé * Bureau capucin *Bureau Mazarin *''Bureau plat'', see Writing table * Butler's desk *Campaign desk *Carlton house desk *Carrel desk * Cheveret desk * Computer desk *Credenza desk * Cubicle desk *Cylinder desk *Davenport desk * Desk and bench * Desk on a chest * Desk on a frame *Drawing table * Ergonomic desk * Escritoire * Fall-front desk * Field desk *Fire screen desk *Games table desk * Lap desk *Lectern desk * Liseuse desk *Mechanical desk * Metamorphic library steps *Moore desk *Partners desk *Pedestal desk * Plantation desk *Portable desk *Rolltop desk * School desk *''Secrétaire à abattant'', see Fall-front desk * Secretaire en portefeuille *Secretary desk *Shtender * Slant-top desk * Spinet desk *Standing desk * Student desk *Tambour desk *''Tanker desk'', see Pedestal desk *Telephone desk * Treadmill d ...
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John Gloag
John Gloag (10 August 1896 - 17 July 1981) was an English writer in the fields of furniture design and architecture. Gloag also wrote science fiction novels. Gloag served with the Welsh Guards during the First World War, and was invalided home after suffering gas poisoning. Writings on design ''Artifex, or the Future of Craftsmanship'' (1926), part of the To-day and To-morrow series, was a pamphlet by Gloag that discussed the relationship between artistic craftmanship and mass production. Gloag's ''A Short Dictionary of Furniture'' (1969) was a reference book covering the history and types of furniture from the tenth century to the 1960s. Novels Gloag's first science fiction novel, ''Tomorrow's Yesterday'', (1932) was inspired by the work of H.G. Wells and Gloag's friend Olaf Stapledon. ''Tomorrow's Yesterday'' is a satire that depicts a race of cat people from the distant future observing human society. In ''The New Pleasure'' (1933) a powder that greatly increases th ...
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Ratchet (device)
A ratchet (occasionally spelled rachet) is a mechanical device that allows continuous linear or rotary motion in only one direction while preventing motion in the opposite direction. Ratchets are widely used in machinery and tools. The word ''ratchet'' is also used informally to refer to a ratcheting socket wrench. __TOC__ Theory of operation A ratchet consists of a round gear or a linear rack with teeth, and a pivoting, spring-loaded finger called a '' pawl'' (or ''click'', in clocks and watches) that engages the teeth. The teeth are uniform but are usually asymmetrical, with each tooth having a moderate slope on one edge and a much steeper slope on the other edge. When the teeth are moving in the unrestricted (i.e. forward) direction, the pawl easily slides up and over the gently sloped edges of the teeth, with a spring forcing it (often with an audible 'click') into the depression between the teeth as it passes the tip of each tooth. When the teeth move in the opposite ...
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Carlton House Desk
A Carlton House desk is a specific antique desk form within the more general bureau à gradin form. This form of desk is supposed to have been designed in the 18th century for the Prince of Wales (who later became George IV) by George Hepplewhite. It is named after Carlton House, which was at the time the London residence of the Prince, and sometimes is also known as a Carlton House writing table. The desk resembles a normal writing table, but small drawers above the surface form a "U" shape around the user, instead of merely facing the user as in a typical bureau à gradin. Unlike other types of bureau à gradin, the Carlton House desk usually offers no pigeonholes. There are usually small slopes over each of the desktop drawers at the left and right ends of the "U" shape. Drawings of this type of desk were presented by Hepplewhite in his noted design book, the '' Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide'', and by Thomas Sheraton in his own book of designs, ''The Cabinet Maker and U ...
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Bureau à Gradin
A bureau à gradin is an antique desk form resembling a writing table with, in addition, one or several tiers of small drawers and pigeonholes built on part of the desktop surface. Usually the drawers and pigeonholes directly face the user, but they can also surround three sides of the desk, as is the case for the Carlton house desk form. A small, portable version is a bonheur du jour. In some cases the bureau à gradin has a second tier of drawers under the work surface, and thus looks like an advanced form of the bureau Mazarin or like a non-enclosed version of the cylinder desk, or the tambour desk. See also the List of desk forms and types This is a list of different types and forms of desks. Desk forms and types *Armoire desk *Bargueño desk * Bible box * Bonheur du jour *Bureau à gradin * Bureau brisé * Bureau capucin *Bureau Mazarin *''Bureau plat'', see Writing table * Butl .... References *Souchal, Genevieve. ''French Eighteenth Century Furniture''. Transla ...
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Drawing Table
Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, erasers, markers, styluses, and metals (such as silverpoint). Digital drawing is the act of drawing on graphics software in a computer. Common methods of digital drawing include a stylus or finger on a touchscreen device, stylus- or finger-to-touchpad, or in some cases, a mouse. There are many digital art programs and devices. A drawing instrument releases a small amount of material onto a surface, leaving a visible mark. The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, wood, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, have been used. Temporary drawings may be made on a blackboard or whiteboard. Drawing has been a popular and fundamental means of public expression throu ...
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Trestle Desk
There are two kinds of trestle desk: as with trestle tables, some have trestles joined by one or more stretchers (and sometimes to the desktop), and some have free-standing trestles. They can be dismantled, with the desk top removed from the trestles, for storage or transport. Antique trestle desk (linked trestles) The antique{{clarify, date=May 2021 trestle desk has linked trestles. It is usually very much like the writing table desk form, which offers a simple flat desktop surface with a few drawers underneath it. Unlike the writing table the trestle desk is supported by two legs instead of four, and the legs are designed to be dismantled easily in order to store or move the desk efficiently. More precisely, the two legs are two strong side supports which branch out in two feet each (for a total of four) at the bottom. These trestles are fastened together, and sometimes to the desktop, to make a rigid support. Some antique trestle desks are fitted with small cubbyholes and no ...
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Desk
A desk or bureau is a piece of furniture with a flat table (furniture), table-style work surface used in a school, office, home or the like for academic, professional or domestic activities such as reading (activity), reading, writing, or using equipment such as a computer. Desks often have one or more Drawer (furniture), drawers, compartments, or pigeonholes to store items such as office supplies and papers. Desks are usually made of wood or metal, although materials such as glass are sometimes seen. Some desks have the form of a table (furniture), table, although usually only one side of a desk is suitable to sit at (there are some exceptions, such as a partners desk), unlike most usual tables. Some desks do not have the form of a table, for instance, an armoire desk is a desk built within a large wardrobe-like cabinet (furniture), cabinet, and a portable desk is light enough to be placed on a person's lap. Since many people lean on a desk while using it, a desk must be sturdy. ...
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